The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

The book that taught America to measure. Fannie Farmer's 1896 classic replaced the pinch, the lump and the teacup of the old receipts with the level cup and the level spoon — and then filled eight hundred pages with what to do next.

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Chocolate Dominoes

1/2 cup pecan nut meat 1½ cup English walnut meat 1/2 cup figs 1/2 cup dates Grated rind 1 orange 1 tablespoon orange juice 1 square chocolate, melted Mix nut meats, figs, and dates, and force through a meat chopper, or chop finely. Add remaining ingredients, toss on a board sprinkled with powdered sugar, and roll to one-third inch in thickness. Cut in domino shapes, spread thinly with melted unsweetened chocolate, and decorate with small pieces blanched almonds to imitate dominoes. 1/3 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs Cream Pie I 1/2 cup milk 134 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 21½ teaspoons baking powder Mix as One Egg Cake. Bake in round layer cake pans.

Put Cream Filling between layers and sprinkle top with powdered sugar.

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